A couple days back, when Denton posted the infamous shot of Pedro giving Don Zim the throw-down during the 2003 ALCS, it got me thinking:
Is that the hands-down craziest thing I’ve ever seen during a Red Sox game?
I have to believe it is. And I still wake up some mornings and ask myself, right after I check to make sure that no one’s swiped my rare Pete Schourek Collector Coins whilst I slept, if I really did see a rage-fueled Don Zimmer go nuts and charge Pedro Martinez, no doubt prompting his grandkids in the stands to wonder if pop-pop lost his shit.
It was insane and incredible and hilarious and really, really sad — particularly Zim’s tear-stained apology presser the following day. But it stands as the single craziest thing I’ve seen in more than three decades of watching the Sox.
That said, there are a few honorable mentions:
1) Jim Rice going into the stands at Yankee Stadium after some knucklehead in the crowd swiped his hat off his head. A testament to the badassery that was Jim Ed: While most of his fellow Sox were content to tussle with the Yankees’ players, he was taking on half the Bronx. Sox utilityman Laschelle Tarver backed Rice up, heading into the melee with a Louisville Slugger to sufficiently up the “what the f#$k am I watching” ante.
2) Julian Tavarez rolling the ball to first base. Because only Jools can turn a routine play into dinner theatre.
3) The flying pizza: Okay, it didn’t happen on the field. But that incident at Fenway a few years back wherein one fan tossed a slice of pizza at another has lived large in Sox infamy, no doubt because it was caught on camera and given the play-by-play treatment by Remy and DO. Where are those gentlemen today… and can NESN re-assemble them for a commemorative special?
I’m sure I missed several hundred. That’s what the comments are for.
I was at the Taz bowling game!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was at the bowling game. In the same game Pedey fought off like 12 pitchs in one AB to hit a HR and Coco made an incredible diving, game-saving catch.
I saw Schilling tie an AL record for most extra-base hits given up.
And I was at the KC game where the ball rolled on top of the wall until a KC player swiped it down.
**Jim Rice going into the stands at Yankee Stadium**
My first game at the old Toilet!
The extremes of Manny the fielder – rolling on the ground in search of the ball & his catch at the wall and high-fiving a fan before throwing it back in.
Haha, the pizza thing was hilarious, especially Don and Jerry pissing themselves laughing at the replays.
Honourable mention too for Manny stroking Tavarez’s hair in the dugout that time, and again, Don and Jerry’s reaction to it.
*snagged a video of the Manny/Tavarez thing before it was removed from YouTube*
Last home game of 2004 against the Yankees where Brown gave up like 47 runs in the first inning.
I blew like 5 months of beer money on those tickets. It was awesome.
kevin millar’s cowboy up commercial during the 2007 ALCS was pretty bizzare..
The time Pedro wore a Yoda mask and got tied up with tape in the dugout was pretty hilarous. The crazy thing is that there’s no film record of it anywhere that I have found, or photo.
Oh The Remy Air-Guitar Fail deserves a mention as well, not crazy as much as funny.
Sean Casey crawls to second base.
That is one of my favorite plays. Hysterical.
That was too funny.
Is it wrong to be hating on ATT because their crappy reception is prohibiting me from having the game on while I’m at work?
😉
I swear I had better reception last season, I can’t even get Gameday to work. /whine
*ahem*
Red to this post please.
I had pizzer for lunch today. No throwing involved.
How about the Jacoby / Coco conversation about Taco Bell?
Wasn’t that Royce Clayton and Coco? Jacoby was the taco supplier.
I’m going to give a shout out to this catch because it almost caused me cardiac arrest at an age where it would have been somewhat unexpected. Everyone lost their shit in a good way.
http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=4135761&c_id=bos
Always a crowd pleaser.
Any time the Bot shows …
Total non sequitur:
I wish I possessed the talent of my many blogging friends to convey how incredible my day was today. Bill Belichick in a tangerine shirt. Nomar covering the game. A stone’s throw from Tito and the on deck circle. The baseball gods smiled on me today and I am truly thankful! 🙂 🙂 🙂
I watched a good college baseball game today in quite pleasant weather, but not quite up to par with your experience. Good for you. 😀
Pedro hitting Gerald Williams in the first inning, the benched clearing, and then Pedro dominating the rest of the game. Still can’t figure out if he meant to hit him or not.
Yeah, it was Royce. But bless you for bringing that up! I laughed way too hard at the entire exchange.
Game 7 of the 2004 ALCS!
George Scott chasing Dennis Martinez around the infield after being hit by a pitch. Classic.
Royce, Jacoby, I was close….. And it was funny.
I was at the ‘Jim Rice’s hat’ game, albeit over in the right field upper deck. You could see Jim go over to field a foul pop. As reported in the papers the next day, some drunk MFYF grabbed his hat, he said ‘please give it back its my lucky hat,’ MFYF said FU, Jim Ed heads into the stands to retrieve said hat, next thing you see is the entire visitor’s dugout empty out and run out and up into the stands after him. He got his hat back. MFYF got arrested.